Welcome to Library Networking Group
The challenges raised by ever-changing ideas, fresh perspectives and marketplace developments are being met by us every day. The continuing need to develop techniques and skills that keep us abreast of change are leading us to new solutions that we need to talk about. The pressure to share our best practices and, more importantly, our developing thoughts have led to the creation of Library Networking Group on-line community.
The Group Web site provides a stimulating and fun variety of ways to share.
| Articles about timely and compelling issues | Networking Groups on topics you choose and groups you can run | ||
| Archives designed to capture best practices and procedures |
Events to capture the colour & flavour of local programs that demonstrate your library's initiatives | ||
| Forums to share ideas that affect all types of libraries | Books that pull together the ideas of you and your colleagues into projects and documents | ||
| Blogs to explore thoughts and ideas that are on your mind | Webcasts that show how you promote your brand, your services, your programs | ||
| PODcasts that capture the current thinking of prominent library leaders | Tried & Tested programs and book titles that match your needs and your audiences | ||
More ways to share will be added as you ask for them. | |||
Feature ArticleAll Eyes on Haiti
On January 25, 2010, the headline of The Onion, an American satirical weekly, read “Massive Earthquake Reveals Entire Island Civilization Called ‘Haiti.’” Unfortunately, this is funny because it is almost true. Many people in North America had never given any consideration to the poorest nation in the western hemisphere until a 7.0 earthquake on January 12, 2010, made it impossible to ignore it any longer. Haiti’s government has reported more than 200,000 people were killed, a greater number injured, and around 1.5 million were left homeless. Homes, schools, and hospitals collapsed. Even the presidential palace and parliament were destroyed. Before the earthquake, the 2009 Human Development Report ranked Haiti, a small island nation with a population of approximately 10 million, 149th out of 182. Half a million children aged six to 12 were not in school, and 38% of the adult population was illiterate. Less than half the population had access to drinking water. » login or register to post comments | read more | 35 reads | 1 attachmentWaving at the FutureSubmitted by Administrator on Wed, 2010-07-28 22:45.By : Michelle Chau As a tech-savvy modern librarian, I am always looking for better ways to understand, organize, and present information to a broad audience. Collaboration is key to my current job in the marketing department of Toronto Public Library, and I love finding new tools to help complete the task at hand. I am unabashedly a lover of technology. I was thrilled for an opportunity to test out Google Wave when it first came out last fall and can now say that I am a lover of that, as well! |



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